Occupy “mic checks” during Karl Rove speech. He doesn’t handle it well (VIDEO)

For the Occupy Wall Street-unfamiliar, a “mic check” is what Occupiers say when they want to address the group. The group then responds “mic check” — giving the speaker the floor. The audience will then repeat whatever the speaker says, so everybody in the crowd can hear it.

Chaos ensued when top GOP strategist Karl Rove — who is…. and we’re double-checking this… NOT a support of the Occupy movement — got mic-checked during his speaking event at John Hopkins University in Baltimore Monday night.

According to video posted by the liberal thinktank ThinkProgress, some demonstrators stood up during Rove’s speech, called for a mic check, then called-and-responsed “Karl Rove/ is the architect/ is the architect of Occupy Iraq/ is the architect of Occupy Afghanistan!”

“Here’s the deal,” Rove roared into his “mic,” “if you believe in the right of free speech, then you have the chance to show it…then you demonstrate it by shutting up and waiting until the q-and-a session,” Rove said, challenging the demonstrators to ask him anything “you want.” Many in the crowd cheered.

“You can go ahead and stand in line and ask any damn question you want or you can continue to show that you are a buffoon.”

Stand in line? Karl, c’mon. This isn’t the buffet line at Fresh Choice. This-is-what-democracy-looks-like. The crowd continued its call-and-response…and Karl then commited a gaffe.

“Who gave you the right to occupy America? Nobody.” Rove said to the protesters.

Uh…the Constitution?

When the Occupy Baltimore crew started chanting “We are the 99 percent!” Karl had an answer for that, too:

“You wanna keep jumping up and yelling that you’re the 99 percent? How presumptuous and arrogant can you think are!”